Talk:Adomian decomposition method

Comment on article status

I have some suggestions for improvements of this article: The general theory and application of the ADM should be discussed. Similarly, there is plenty of discussion about additions and modifications to ADM within the third example, but this should be generalized and summarized earlier in the article. This article still needs more citations and discussion about applications, as well as some references on limitations of convergence and applicability. The second two examples are also a bit heavy; I would recommend trimming both down if possible (e.g. simpler PDE problem). Overall this article is in a good state at this point. The illustrations are helpful and the background of the method is sufficient for a cursory understanding. Cheers! Rememberlands (talk) 23:37, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Don't see what the point of this "method" is if all it does is produce a power-series solution. Can't that be obtained much more easily using the Frobenius method? Most of the literature about "Adomian decomposition" that comes up on Google Scholar appears to be copy & paste papers written in poor English in questionable journals. Evilmathninja (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:19, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm by no means an expert on this, but what got me looking into ADM was that it's supposed to provide a small amount of error at low computational cost, as compared to other numerical methods. 87.142.99.152 (talk) 19:04, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Examples

OK, I spent a good 20 minutes trying to understand the first example and I failed. There are arbitrary logical and notational jumps from one line to the next, which make it very hard to follow for someone new to this. Would be extremely nice if someone could edit the article to actually explain what's going on. That's what WP is for, no? For the frustrating "and now it's obvious that..." stuff I can google any number of mathematical papers on the issue. Before you start mocking my intelligence: Yes, I do have some exposure to differential equations and transformations through my engineering studies, altough it's been a while. 87.142.99.152 (talk) 19:15, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I said above, this is not actually a legitimate mathematical technique with any kind of advantages or uses. It is some kind of scam, where people copy & paste the same illogical steps, reproduce the power series solution from the Frobenius method (taught in introductory undergraduate ODEs course), and publish in questionable journals. Evilmathninja (talk) 01:23, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]